This starts Tuesday 2nd Feb on FX. I think a lot of people will have heard about this now as it's been advertised quite a bit and is generating a lot of buzz.

If you haven't, it stars Cuba Gooding Jr as O.J., and has a super strong cast, including John Travolta in his first TV role in 20+ years.

I first heard Chuck Klosterman talking on a podcast a month or so back about how entertaining the first six episodes are. I wasn't totally sure if he was saying they were just a great fun (from memory he mentioned Travolta hamming it up), but recent reviews seem to confirm that this is going to be an excellent show. From the IndieWire link:

It also seems this is likely to be the year of O.J.:

Love Sarah Paulson. I'm in.

in, I've been looking forward to this for a while. OJ invented live car chases iirc

looking forward to this a great deal, but some serious expectations to uphold when dude is claiming 1st 6eps are better than band of brothers which is clearly the GOAT ever made on TV.

Very excited about this. Finished the book which is the primary source material relied upon by the show (Jeffrey Toobin's The Run of His Life) a few weeks ago and it was an utterly fascinating read.

Looking forward to that ESPN doc, and this miniseries looks good too.

Also ESPN 30 for 30 did a great episode on the day of the Bronco Chase. Title is "June 17, 1994".

Can't wait...I was actually called for jury duty on this but wax excused when I said OJ was my favorite player and I was a Bills fan.

I was actually in a business meeting in LA when the chase was going on. Everyone just stopped and watched on TV. It was so surreal.

Loved that story, until I realized, "Oh wait...Dom really IS a Bills fan."

Hey, wait a minute ...I thought voir dire was a written questionnaire with like 100 q's...

Googled it. It was over 300 Q's!

NYT and WaPo critics are loving it today.

this is gonna be the first time i've seen Ross since Friends. plus a semi-prequel to Keeping Up With The Kardashians? it's like 4 shows in one. can't wait


show me the OJ!

i often feel like Kato. like i'm not an "official person". like i'm just living back here.

**** this show is deep

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They made Kato look pretty stupid, but might have been accurate. lol

thought it was great.

tons of commercials though. I almost felt bad FFing through all of them. would gladly pay FX a buck an episode (or whatever the advertisers price the eyes at)

Yea, I don't notice excess commercials since I FF thru them all.

ya thought it was really well done

It was fine but Toobin's book >>>>>>> show so far.

he's my favorite so far. greeting oj with a big smile at the funeral

I forgot to mention, a couple of things made me cringe:

1) Working in not one but two references to the Kardashian girls.
2) Mark Fuhrman: "My name is Mark Fuhrman. (I'm telling you this even though it has zero relevance to the rest of what I'm about to say.)" <winks at audience>

I mean, be a little more subtle about each of these things and trust the audience.

I dunno, like I said above I thought it was fine, but the book and its much greater depth is more interesting, does greater justice to the reality of this absurd and fascinating sequence of events, and I doubt the show will ever be its equal (even though the trailer gave me a lot of hope that it would). One thing that I'm particularly disappointed by is how thus far the show is making Clark, Cochran, and Darden each out to be a lot more sympathetic and less three-dimensional than how they were portrayed in the book.

It's one episode, give it time!

Pretty damn enthralling.

I remember that whole day in L.A. when reports were that OJ was being charged and that he was turning himself in...and then he disappeared. Everyone assumed he had gone off to kill himself...TVs were on everywhere (the internet was not yet capable of this real-time reporting).

And then the white Bronco. So surreal. It seemed like hours as the cops just followed it, talking to AC.

I was horrified and titillated, that day was like nothing else before or since.

--Schwimmer gets the MVP so far, tho Travolta is awesome, too.

--Came in expecting competence from Lange and Vanatter, and INcompetence from Marcia Clark. I'm 0-for-3 so far.

--Your Subtle Moment from this ep: talking about a case where his client suffered police brutality and no cops would be charged, Cochran says he plans to sue the city, because sometimes money is the only justice you can get.

Hey, I know a case where that happened to a guy who had to sell his Heisman Trophy..

I really enjoyed it.

Having grown up in LA I knew a handful of people involved in the whole fiasco - interested to see how many "other" people they portray in the show

overall i thought it was good. I'm in.

one thing that bothered me - and I'm sure it's accurate to how they spoke - was the constant use of "Juice." Man, they must have called him that 60 times in the episode. it sounded corny every single time.